I would like to invite you to the 42nd ILAB Congress and 26th International Antiquarian Book Fair in Budapest from 21 to 25 September 2016. Our friend, colleague and President of the Hungarian Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Adam Bosze has organized a fabulous congress programme that leads us to the most important and beautiful sites in and around the Hungarian capital.

ILAB booksellers across the world: Please join us in Hungary in September 2016. I look forward to welcoming you in Budapest!

Norbert Donhofer, ILAB President

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On behalf of the Hungarian Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, I kindly invite you to the 42nd Congress of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, which will take place in Budapest between 21 and 23 September, 2016. I am very proud that we, the Hungarian Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, have the honour to organise this prestigious event, and I promise to do my very best to ensure that all participants can take home an enriching experience with them. It makes me especially happy to be able to welcome you at the First Budapest International Antiquarian Book Fair on 24 and 25 Septembert 2016, related to the ILAB Congress, both as visitors and as exhibitors.

Please, watch the video and kindly accept my invitation. I am looking forward to meeting you in Budapest on 21 September 2016!

Ádám Bosze, President of the Hungarian Antiquarian Booksellers' Association

After Paris, Lucerne, Bologna and Madrid book dealers and book collectors will meet in Budapest for the 42nd ILAB Congress and 26th International Antiquarian Book Fair from 21 to 25 September 2016.

The exciting congress programme will show the delegates from across the world that Budapest is a city with many faces: the old Hungarian capital full of books and music, history and tradition and at the same time a lively and busy Eastern European centre full of young and amazing cultural concepts.

THE CONGRESS PROGRAMME

19 September 2016 - Meetings

10 am - 6 pm: ILAB Committee Meeting

Hotel Kempinski, Salon Regiomontanus

7 pm: Welcome Dinner

Borkonyha Budapest

20 September 2016 - Meetings

10 am - 6 pm: ILAB President's Meeting

Hotel Kempinski, Salon Regiomontanus

21 September 2016 - ILAB Congress

8:30 am: Treasures of the National Library of Hungary

12:30 pm: Lunch, Manna Restaurant

2:15 pm: Adventures on Foot. Interactive sightseeing in Buda Castle

8 pm: Ankert. Dinner in a "ruin-pub" & ethno-jazz concert

22 September 2016 - ILAB Congress

9 am: Walk to the University Library

9:30 am: World of the Bibliotheca Corviniana - Codex Dante. Guided tour through the Library of the Eötvös Loránd University

Our world is global and we have a wide variety of means of communication at our disposal. Why bother to travel a long way to meet real people?

Just as the virtual book is not a substitute for a real book, just as we want to see, feel, and touch a real book, we want to meet real people and talk to them, face-to-face, as we prefer to "meet" a book "face-to-face". This is what the ILAB Congresses offer: the possibility to meet colleagues, collectors, librarians, and real books, and the possibility for collectors, librarians, and real books to meet us. Amor librorum nos unit!